<\/p>\n
For almost all my life, I’ve known that words
\nwere thick like leaves upon the cottonwood,
\nlike starling feathers on a wheeling flock,
\nflashes on the water, glimpsed through the clouds.
\nFor just as long, they’ve hidden like hedge birds.
\nI’ve had to chase them out, and beat them good
\nand hard with graphite sticks, with rope and rock,
\nto keep them from dispersing through the crowds.<\/p>\n
But have you, though, ever felt them when they’re right?
\nHave you felt them in your bones or felt them break
\nevery heart you have, then heal them back
\ninto one heart that beats hard as you write?<\/p>\n
That’s why I gather words and why I take
\nmy bones and hearts and strengthen what words lack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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